Jessica Saves the Trees

Soccer fever has hit Sweet Valley Middle School! Everyone is excited about the upcoming season, including identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. But Jessica's happiness quickly fades when she learns that the school plans to tear down some beautiful old trees to make room for a bigger soccer field. Jessica risks her popularity, and possibly the soccer team's chance at a big championship, by starting an environmental crusade to save the trees. But can she hold her ground against all her new enemies -- including the boy she likes?

About the author (1993)

Francine Pascal grew up in New York City and attended New York University. She is the author of the Sweet Valley High series, featuring twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. She had originally planned the idea for a daytime soap for teens, but a close friend talked her into making the idea into a book series instead. Pascal has also written "Hangin' Out with Cici, which became an ABC After School Special called "My Mother Was Never a Kid", "The Hand-Me-Down Kid," also made into an ABC After School Special, "My First Love and Other Disasters," and "Love and Betrayal & Hold the Mayo." She has also worked on a musical and several adult books, and is the executive director for the Sweet Valley High TV show.